Bass will nest close to the bank with their nest being circles in the gravel a couple of feet wide. Of course, the male bass will actively protect the nest from predators and keep it clean.

I read in a golf magazine a ling time ago. A guy was hitting to a green that had a water hazard right up to the edge. He hit it a little fat and watched his ball hit the water a few feet from the bank. Ten seconds or so goes by and all of the sudden his ball popped back up on the bank. When he got up to the ball and looked in the water, there was a nest there with a bass that was about three pounds in it. The ball had landed in the nest and the male bass had picked it up and spit it out of the nest.

Last edited by JoeBob; 02/28/24.